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The Beginning Of ZenBot

eye-zen

Today i finally received all the chassis parts to commence the build of my Autonomous Wheeled Bot.The basic design concept is using a turtlebot base using arduinos to control the motor and sensor functions and then onboard is a Nvidia Jetson TK1 boar...
- 15 May 2016
High Throughput SPI traffic part 0 - Buffers and Parallel Data Lines

Jan Cumps

We know SPI as a 4*-wire protocol. But it doesn't have to be.I'm checking high speed SPI data transfer with buffers, DMA and parallel data lines. While I'm at it, I'm also going to test hardware handshaking with the Enable signal. Let's se...
- 13 May 2016
Pi 3 heard me, and spoke back!

alanmcdonley

Last night was exciting. Roughly following the article at http://makezine.com/projects/use-raspberry-pi-for-voice-control/ I was able to get the sphinx speech recognition engine installed on my roadtest Raspberry Pi 3. I'll s...
- 13 May 2016
Automating My Home

tonyboubady

I have decided to do a little project for my home. There is a two light domes in front gate pillars of my home, we used to switch on the light at evening time as it will get too dark, and we are too lazy to ask each other to do so on regular basis......
- 13 May 2016
High Voltage GaN FETs - Part 1: Several 100 Volts

Jan Cumps

I'm a low power guy. And a low voltage one too. I don't have a power supply that delivers more than 33 V.On the other hand, I'm interested in DC to DC conversion. I think this is an area in electronics where you can get a deep understandi...
- 12 May 2016
Engineering Job Opportunity of a Life Time

SmilinVamp

Are you fluent in Mandarin and English? Do you have a passion for embedded systems engineering and working with people.Engenuics has an Engineering Job Opportunity of a Lifetime. Applicants required by end of May 2016!Engenuics Technologies Inc...
- 12 May 2016
Newbie

e14 Contributor

What I'm saying is that I have an extensive background in industrial electricity. While servicing a 4160kv mcc. I noticed circuit boards. Long story short. what is the best way to slowly introduce electronics into repert...
- 11 May 2016
Raspberry PI 3 Give-a-way

e14 Contributor

RAPIFIRE is giving away one Raspberry Pi 3 Model B board in a random draw. What do you need to do to have a chance to win it? Just sign up for your RAPIFIRE free account here and at the end of June 4th, 2016 we will randomly select a luck winne...
- 9 May 2016
IOT - Researching Controllers and SBC

e14 Contributor

Our first experiences in IOT (Internet of Things) project developmentClic aquí para la versión en español / Click here for Spanish version In November 2015 we decided to start researching the equipment and programming for our upcoming projects #...
- 8 May 2016
Got side tracked: Checking my min, max, average download speed

alanmcdonley

Speedtest on the Pi 3 There is a lot of talk about logging the performance delivered by our internet service providers.Several authors have connected the utility speedtest to public logging sites, or to Google Drive to provide away from ho...
- 6 May 2016
“Your focus determines your reality.” – Qui-Gon Jinn

e14 Contributor

It is the cornerstone of Anakin, but it is also the cornerstone of all of us
- 4 May 2016
redesign on the extra to give a better cg

dpot

redesign on the extra to give a better cg and take out as much weight as i can the prototype is flying ok but the 3D flying is not that good i am using the fg45i gas motor but wont to set it up for a 60cc twin as wellso will set up the motor box so i...
- 4 May 2016
State of the Art - Novel InFlow Tech - Featured Project Development; 1-Gearturbine, 2-Imploturbocompressor

retrodynamic

State of the Art - Novel InFlow Tech - Featured Project Development; 1-Gearturbine, 2-Imploturbocompressor *Wordpress Blog State of the Art Novel InFlow Gearturbine Imploturbocompressor: http://stateoftheartnovelinflowtech.blogspot.mx/&nbs...
- 2 May 2016
Adding Festival Text-To-Speech (TTS) to Raspbian-lite on RPi 3

alanmcdonley

Festival TTS There are two very easy to install Text To Speech engines for Raspberry Pi - Festival and espeak. The following explores the Festival engine. === install the Festival Text-To-Speech package ==sudo apt-ge...
- 1 May 2016
Pi3 Jessie Audio for USB Microphone Input and RPi3 3.5mm Jack Output

alanmcdonley

This is how I configured my Raspberry Pi3 for USB Microphone input, and RPi3 3.5mm jack audio output (headphones/speakers) === My hardware:Processor: Raspberry Pi3 (Thank you element14 Roadtest...)Firmware: (uname -a) 4.1.19-v7+OS: (cat /e...
- 1 May 2016
Getting Started - Loading Raspbian-lite and Exploring

alanmcdonley

My configuration:Home Computer: Apple Mac Mini Monitor: LG 24" 21:9 split - one side for Mac, one side for RPi 3Location: US(micro) SD card: 16GB These are my first steps and session. ==== Get Raspbian (lite)— Downlo...
- 1 May 2016
Alan's Pi3 RoadTest Blog

alanmcdonley

Again a big thank you to the element14 folks for accepting my Pi3 RoadTest proposal, and sending the free Raspberry Pi 3. As the saying "There is no such thing as a free lunch" holds, I will blog my progress here.
- 1 May 2016
TI MSP432 EKG Monitor Holter Part 1

martinvalencia

My GoalI'm designing a Holter Monitor to cardiac signals that store for 24 hours, the design must use 4 batteries AA as a power source while should methods to extend the life of the batteries. The Holter Monitor includes 4GB memory SD and a ...
- 30 Apr 2016
2645 - Coding Steps (3) - Plink

el14jw

This blog posts concludes this project by describing some of the techniques used to code a physics based jumping game. Sadly specific code used for this project is not mentioned here to prevent plagiarism but will be posted later on in the year for t...
- 29 Apr 2016
MSP432 Power Modes: real time current measurement - µCurrent vs. EnergyTrace

Jan Cumps

The MSP432 controller is a low power ARM Cortex M4.TI Marketing Dept. say: low power, high performance.I'm not looking for high performance. Low power is what I'm after at the moment.Rather than just believing the hype, I'd better measure...
- 25 Apr 2016
Tools for MakerSpace

blakerwilson

What tools would you consider a must for a viable makerspace?
- 25 Apr 2016
OAG001 Op-Amp Amplifier and Filter Prototype PCB

peterjcs23

I never find it easy to build op-amp prototypes using surface mount components. One can buy an adapter PCB that converts SM to through hole pins compatible with 0.1inch breadboards or prototype boards. But it is still difficult to wire up the resisto...
- 25 Apr 2016
Welcome To Electronics_Lab!

jezt48@gmail.com

Hello!
- 22 Apr 2016
2645 Project - PCB Soldering

el14jw

The Easter break from university is now over and the PCB designs that were sent away have arrived! So it's time to take a break from coding and get down to the fun that is soldering all the components onto the PCB. Also I would like to apologise in a...
- 20 Apr 2016
Google Fiber setup complete!

blakerwilson

Google Fiber is in and almost everything ran smoothly. We opted to forgo the TV portion and only run with Internet. Then only thing that didn't work was the wireless connection to our Smart TV... No big deal. I just needed to run a cable to the ...
- 18 Apr 2016